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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Improve SQL0293N when creating database on 4K sector size disk

On CREATE DATABASE db2 reports a very generic error message SQL0293N when there is a write access to a 4K sector size disk. Instead should do a check when creating containers e.g. read 512 bytes, if this does not work, read 4K block. If 4K block c...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Red Hat SSO need to support Db2

Red Hat SSO does not support Db2 according to documentation https://access.redhat.com/articles/2342861 Customers who are using Db2 would like to be able to use it for Red Hat SSO. Maintaining additional databases add complexity and cost.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Master key rotation in HADR is not in transactional sequence even in SYNC mode

IN Encryption at rest - HADR scenario, master key rotation on primary is not getting shipped to standby immediately (relatively) in SYNC mode. Seems it needs explicit ARCHIVE LOG command to rotation key on standby.
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (MERGE ...)

SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (MERGE ...) - It would be very usefull to select records that were just merged. The same way like with DELETE / UPDATE and INSTERT: SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (DELETE / UPDATE / INSERT)
almost 11 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

EF Core driver needs to support value convertors

Your DB2 Entity Framework Core driver does not support value convertors. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/modeling/value-conversions Value convertors are really useful with databases to do things like: Translate Y/N fields to proper boolea...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Error message improvement

We request na addition to the error messages for this specific scenario: While converting non-UTS tablespaces to UTS using SECQTY 0 the opperation returned only the message DSNI014I reason code 00C90101, no message indicating space shortage in tab...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Require API based capability for feeding in Natural Language to generate the Ansible code. As well ability to feed in parallel inputs (against the sequential one requiring user intervention today)

Automation and parallel processing
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible 1 Planned for future release

DB2 database backup on Google cloud storage

We can utilize Google cloud storage directly for the database backups.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Future consideration

Real-time statistics with statistics profile can lead to deadlocks and lock timeouts

DB2 real-time statistics facility honors RUNSTATS options specified in the statistics profile, while performing synchronous statistics collection during statement compilation. If the statistics profile contains ALLOW READ ACCESS option, this can l...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add hotkeys to interact with WCA context input

Add hotkeys to: Use selected text as context in a fresh chat Use selected context in the current chat Focus the chat text input Would really improve the usability as it wouldn't force your hands off the keyboard, it could also potentially push peo...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration